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III. GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
1. Burnprnes AnD Works. 
Besides the usual sum devoted to the repairs of the 
numerous buildings in the Society’s Gardens, which in 
the year 1867 amounted to £2813 16s. 3d., a sum of up- 
wards of £3000 was spent in the erection of new buildings 
and on the enlargement and permanent improvement of 
those already in existence. The principal new building 
erected during the year was the New Deer-house, situated 
in the South Gardens, near the entrance from the Broad 
Walk, which, together with the yards, fences, and roads 
adjoining, cost the sum of £1695 18s. 3d. This house, 
which is now quite complete, holds the Society’s fine 
collection of the larger Deer of the Old World with 
very great convenience, and enables them to be exhibited, 
arranged in a natural series, in a manner that was not 
possible under previous arrangements. The old Wapiti- 
house situated in the North Gardens, where most of 
these animals were formerly kept, has been entirely 
removed and the ground cleared preparatory to the erection 
thereon of a new building for Elephants and Rhinoceroses, 
which since the late material increase of the Society’s col- 
lection of these animals has become a matter of absolute 
necessity. 
The house for Rodents near the Swine-house and the 
adjoining greenhouses, commenced in 1866, as announced 
in the last Report, were completed during the Spring of 
1867 at a cost of £386 1s. 7d. These buildings are 
now in full use, and seem to meet the objects for which 
they were intended in every way. 
The sum of £312 5s. was devoted to the permanent im- 
provement and thorough repair of the left wing of the 
Western Aviary. The whole of the old wire-work, which 
was very much worn, has been removed, and new wire- 
work with a smaller mesh, so as to prevent the entrance 
of sparrows, substituted in its place. The ground-floor 
of the Aviary has been raised so as to bring up the 
birds more nearly to a level with the eye of the spectator, 
and at the same time to improve the drainage. New glass 
sliding doors have been placed in front of such of the 
inner compartments as were not previously furnished with 
them, so as to give additional protection to the inmates in 
winter. 'The old hot-air heating-flues have been replaced 
